Explain the functions of food colours.

answer..
Colouring substance mean any substance that, when added to food, is capable of imparting colour to that food and includes colouring preparation.
  • To offset colour loss due to exposure to light, air, temperature, extremes, moisture and storage conditions.
  • To correct natural variations in colour
  • To enhance colour that occur naturally
  • To provide colour to colourless and "fun" or attractive foods

Without colour additives,
  • Cola wouldn't be brown
  • Margarine would't be yellow

Colour additives are now recognized as an important part of practically all processed foods we eat.